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Hacker News Favorites

When a Hacker upvotes a Hacker News submission, they express a transient interest in the article. When a Hacker favorites a submission, they bookmark it for later reading. Thus, favorited articles become curated lists of high value information. I thought it would be interesting to find the most favorited articles on Hacker News. Without further ado, the most commonly favorited articles by the top 10k active members! (Sorry: the formatting works properly on observablehq.com but includes a 3MB data payload)

1.Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutesjgthms.com
96 faves | comments
        
2.Music Theory: An Education from First Principleslightnote.co
85 faves | comments
          
3.Learning Synthsableton.com
78 faves | comments
          
4.For Economy, Aging Population Poses Double Whammywsj.com
75 faves | comments
          
5.So You Want to Learn Physicssusanjfowler.com
72 faves | comments
          
6.Machine Learning 101 slidedeck: 2 years of headbanging, so you don't have todocs.google.com
72 faves | comments
          
7.The Amazing $1 Microcontroller (2017)jaycarlson.net
68 faves | comments
          
8.Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuationtechcrunch.com
67 faves | comments
          
9.Compare career levels across companieslevels.fyi
67 faves | comments
          
10.Ursula Le Guin has diednytimes.com
66 faves | comments
          
11.How to Find Consulting Clientschrisachard.com
65 faves | comments
          
12.My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt filejeffhuang.com
65 faves | comments
          
13.Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (2013) [pdf]keybase.pub
65 faves | comments
          
14.Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHubcoraline.codes
63 faves | comments
          
15.One SQL to Rule Them All: Management of Streams and Tablesarxiv.org
62 faves | comments
          
16.Why the Industrial Revolution Didn’t Happen in Chinawashingtonpost.com
62 faves | comments
          
17.What Working at Stripe Has Been Likekalzumeus.com
62 faves | comments
          
18.Apple Faceshieldsupport.apple.com
62 faves | comments
          
19.Those People We Tried to Cancel? They’re All Hanging Out Togethernytimes.com
61 faves | comments
          
20.Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Yearsyoutube.com
60 faves | comments
          
21.European Court Allows Copyright Owners to Demand Open Wifi Networks be Securedeff.org
60 faves | comments
          
22.iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Agesgeekbench.com
60 faves | comments
          
23.How Sydney destroyed its trams for love of the cartheguardian.com
60 faves | comments
          
24.Foreign Accent Syndromecbc.ca
60 faves | comments
          
25.Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithmgithub.com
58 faves | comments
          
26.Heavy SSD Writes from Firefoxservethehome.com
57 faves | comments
          
27.Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pimtlynch.io
57 faves | comments
          
28.The world in which IPv6 was a good designapenwarr.ca
57 faves | comments
          
29.Launchaco – Instantly generate a responsive, free, websitelaunchaco.com
55 faves | comments
          
30.ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paperremarkable.com
55 faves | comments
          
31.My wonderful world of macOSgithub.com
53 faves | comments
          
32.Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websitesmedium.com
52 faves | comments
          
33.New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTMLnewcss.net
52 faves | comments
          
34.Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Frameworkarwes.dev
52 faves | comments
          
35.Make educated wireless router/AP upgrade decisionsduckware.com
52 faves | comments
          
36.Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017)nytimes.com
50 faves | comments
          
37.Safe ways to do things in bashgithub.com
50 faves | comments
          
38.Paper Planespaperplanes.world
49 faves | comments
          
39.Securing PostgreSQL [pdf]thebuild.com
49 faves | comments
          
40.Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150msleeoniya.github.io
49 faves | comments
          
41.Advanced Data Structurescsail.mit.edu
49 faves | comments
          
42.Bye, Amazontbray.org
48 faves | comments
          
43.AWS services explained in one line eachadayinthelifeof.nl
48 faves | comments
          
44.Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Homereturntonow.net
48 faves | comments
          
45.YC’s Essential Startup Adviceycombinator.com
48 faves | comments
          
46.What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]youtube.com
47 faves | comments
          
47.Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startupmedium.com
47 faves | comments
          
48.How to Improve a Legacy Codebasejacquesmattheij.com
47 faves | comments
          
49.Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and Youkalzumeus.com
47 faves | comments
          
50.Pivotal Software S-1sec.gov
47 faves | comments
          

Methodology

A single member gets one unit of voting power, which is divided across their latest 30 favourited articles. Analysis code and data is availible on observablehq.com. Thanks to Luísa Gonçalves, Zalando, for the idea of using bookmarks as an important signal.

Author

  • Tom Larkworthy
    Senior Cloud Architect